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The Resources within this shop are all designed for the teaching of Mathematics for those in the age range 7 - 18 years old. Most resources consist of a PowerPoint lesson followed by a worksheet for the students. With over twenty nine years of experience, the powerpoint/worksheets within the shop have been used successfully by myself and colleagues over that time. As a head of department for over 15 years, the department has yearly been judged as adding substantial value to students grades.

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The Resources within this shop are all designed for the teaching of Mathematics for those in the age range 7 - 18 years old. Most resources consist of a PowerPoint lesson followed by a worksheet for the students. With over twenty nine years of experience, the powerpoint/worksheets within the shop have been used successfully by myself and colleagues over that time. As a head of department for over 15 years, the department has yearly been judged as adding substantial value to students grades.
Probability of a Single event
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Probability of a Single event

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Three lessons on the probability of a single event. First lesson starts with likelihood The next two lessons then look at the probability being expressed as a fraction.
Drawing straight line graphs
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Drawing straight line graphs

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This lesson shows students how to work out the y coordinates for given x coordinates. Then the results are placed onto a given xy axis and the line drawn. The lesson is accompanied with a worksheet for students to answer in class or as a piece of homework.
Surface Area
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Surface Area

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This lesson looks at finding the surface area of shapes such as cuboids, square based pyramids, cylinders, cones and spheres. The lesson also shows a proof for the surface area formula of a cone. However for this students to understand this proof it is essential that they have already met arc length and area of a sector. The lesson contains a number of worked examples.
Rational and Irrational Numbers
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Rational and Irrational Numbers

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The power point lesson teaches students the understanding of the works Rational and irrational when it comes to numbers. There is a proof for the square root of 2 being irrational and a number of examples where recurring decimals are expressed as fractions (hence showing that they are rational numbers). I always teach this lesson before introducing the simplifying of surds.
Christmas Workout
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Christmas Workout

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This set of exercises can either be used as a starter during the last two weeks of term or all together as a lesson piece. Designed with a Christmas feel, the task involves students either creating mathematical equations or using the process of elimination to find the numerical values attached to each of the Christmas pictures presented. The material is useful for either KS2 or KS3 students, however GCSE foundation students would also have fun with this material.
Revision starters for GCSE topics.
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Revision starters for GCSE topics.

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Here I have created a group of starter questions for my foundation students to tackle at the beginning of the lesson. This powerpoint includes questions on fractions into decimals sequences the nth term solving simple equations dividing into a given ratio simplifying expressions factorising multiplying decimals
Angles in a Polygon Revision lesson
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Angles in a Polygon Revision lesson

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This lesson is designed for my Key stage 4 classes. Through a series of worked examples the class revise how to find the number of sides for a regular polygon or the size of interior and exterior angles. Plus further problems. The lesson also contains a worksheet with solutions.
Calculating the mean
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Calculating the mean

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This Powerpoint consists of a variety of worked examples which demonstrate how we can calculate the mean. I use this lesson with students who have probably met the topic before but require a revisit to the topic. I usually use this lesson before I introduce student to the "fx" column and therefore questions involving the frequency table.
Angles at a point
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Angles at a point

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This lesson and worksheet teaches students, through worked examples, how to work out missing angles when drawn around a point by calculation. This Powerpoint is used for students who struggle with Mathematics or as an introduction for younger students. The worksheet also has an answer sheet provided. I have updated the background of the slides to be more user friendly for students with dyslexia. Many more lessons available in the shop https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/sjcooper
Vertically Opposite angles
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Vertically Opposite angles

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This lesson and worksheet teaches students, through worked examples, how to work out missing angles when two straight lines cut each other. This Powerpoint can be used for students who struggle with Mathematics or as an introduction for younger students. The worksheet also has an answer sheet provided.
Algebraic Problems involving Angles
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Algebraic Problems involving Angles

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This lesson and worksheets looks at algebraic problems which involve constructing equations based on the knowledge of either angles in a triangle angles in a quadrilateral ands associated with parallel lines angles in a parallelogram angles associated with circle theorems. There are two worksheets to backup the worked examples. The second worksheet is similar to the first just in case you need a review and want student to "have another go" Solutions are provided.
Christmas Mathematics Advent Calendar
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Christmas Mathematics Advent Calendar

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Give your classroom a festive look this December. The two advent calendars are designed to be displayed around the classroom in the run up to the Christmas holiday, or as set pieces of work each day. Students can search the classroom walls for the question of the day and answer the question on their sheet. Ideal as a starter or a good conclusion to the lesson. Questions range from Algebra, number work, fractions, decimals, ratio and much more. There are two calendars which can be mixed and matched as you require. Excellent resource to include a little bit of festive fun and revision.
GCSE Maths : Circle Theorems Revision KS4
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GCSE Maths : Circle Theorems Revision KS4

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Circle Theorems revision is a PowerPoint presentation which can be used over two lessons or more. The lesson starts with the six theorems required at GCSE followed by a series of examples and questions for the students to attempt.
Right Angled Trigonometry Introduction
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Right Angled Trigonometry Introduction

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An introduction for students meeting Trigonometry for the first time. Covering several lessons. Demonstrates how to label the sides of a right angled triangle. Introduces students to the three Trig ratios before looking at finding angles.
A Dozen Questions
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A Dozen Questions

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This worksheet can be used as a lesson check or piece of homework. It is designed so that the student or teacher can identify from the twelve topics which they CAN do and which topics need further work. The piece of work has been designed with the new GCSE grading 1 to 9 in mind. Also available from the shop is a gross of higher level questions https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-dozen-11481534 And more dozen questions for the foundation range labelled 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Standard Form revision
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Standard Form revision

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Keeping with the theme of the revision lessons already on here this lesson looks at the ability of students being able to write as a standard form, or as an ordinary number. It also looks at multiplication or division of numbers written in standard form. This lesson is part of the bundle I am currently putting together for both my higher level and foundation level students. The bundle can be found from the following link. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-revision-lessons-11733758
Mathematics Specifications taught in years 7 to 11
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Mathematics Specifications taught in years 7 to 11

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I put this on the site because I’ve used this since 1988 and its proved successful. Since the introduction of National curriculum, with its 15 attainment targets, I divided it into 5 sections. The four you see on each specification sheet plus one for investigations. What I like about this presentation is whenever I have seen a change to the syllabus such as in 1994, 2000, 2010 and more recently in 2015 I have only had to alter a little of what I do. Each year I print the specifications onto A3 paper. In a meeting, at the beginning of the year, we discuss what went well what do we think should be added to the year 7, 8, 9 scheme of work so that the work in year 10 and 11 can be reduced. I’ve been invited to several school to implement this and each school had sightly different schemes to each other. So for example with the introduction of the iterative formula I decided to introduce this in year 9 so that when students study this in years 10 or 11 they have already met it once. Years ago I decided that students in years 10 and 11 were struggling with Circle Theorems. Hence I introduced students to circle theorems in year 7 with two introduced. In year 8 we revised these two theorems and introduced 2 more. Then in year 9 all 6 theorems. This proved successful. Now don’t get me wrong some years we added to a curriculum to find at the end of the year we were criticising ourselves with “theres too much to get through”; so the yearly debate is essential.Plus if nothing else it shows you are working as a team. The scheme for year 7 is aimed at everyone. Each student having the same opportunity to flourish. The schemes for year 8 and 9 are taken at the teachers discretion. That is to say with some classes the teacher will touch on a topic listed whereas other classes with totally master the said topic. The scheme in year 10 and 11 is what is required for the new specifications. Again a teacher decides where to start what they feel they can omit from the classroom learning, etc… Some might say what materials do I need to cover the topics you have listed or resources. I have always left that up to the individual teacher (treating them as a professional) however if someone did ask for advise on covering say Decimals I would give them access to the power points and worksheets I use for that year group. I have demonstrated this with a hyperlink on many of the topics. I will add to these hyperlinks as I upgrade my lessons from PowerPoint/board work.